clue; lead; key; handhold; hold
looking for (a suitable thing or person); searching for; hunting out; picking out; shopping around for; searching (a place)
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
obvious; (as) clear as day; plain to see
rice field; rice paddy; paddy field
meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
precognitive dream; foresight dream; prophetic dream
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
fraudulent business of selling goods by claiming they will bring supernatural benefits
doubting; distrustful; incredulous; suspicious
mountain road; mountain trail
worm-eaten; moth-eaten; holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.; leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff
godan (verb, verb conjugation); fifth dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
to go up the stairs; to climb the stairs
remains; corpse; (dead) body
length and width; length and breadth; every direction; all directions; as one wishes; as one pleases
(sense of) sight; eyesight; vision
series (of something); range (e.g. of mountains)
directly under; falling perpendicularly
lighting (a lamp); turning on a light
to lean against; to recline on; to lean on; to rely on; to depend on
kendama; Japanese bilboquet (cup-and-ball game)
sake bottle; tall and slender bottle with a narrow mouth made from ceramic, metal or glass that can be used for sake, shoyu or rice vinegar; turtleneck (sweater); non-swimmer; person who cannot swim
to be entwined; to be involved
to drag around; to pull about; to lead around (by the nose)
tire track; traces of a person or thing; path one has taken; locus
to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference
rash decision; jumping to a conclusion
to be crowded; to be packed; to be busy; to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with many things); to be packed (of one's schedule)
to be free; to be available
purple; violet; purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon); red gromwell; soy sauce
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor; (lit.) to touch the scale on a dragon's throat
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
after a while; a little while later; shortly afterward; after a brief interval